added chainstack in README.md

[syahrul12345]

I would like to include Chainstack into the README file as another option for Ethereum Node provider

[ricmoo]

Do you have more docs on chainstack? That list is more for built-in Providers, but I can easily add a ChainstackProvider.

[syahrul12345]

Hi Richard,

Sure our documentation is here : https://docs.chainstack.com/

Chainstack is an Ethereum node provider, and we only support what's already specified here https:/ethereum/wiki/wiki/JSON-RPC

:)

[ricmoo]

Thanks!

What type of scale are you currently able to handle? I may consider adding you to the default provider, if you are interested and have the capacity.

When people use ethers.getDefaultProvider they get an instance of a FallbackProvider with several backends which are used for load balancing as well as verifying the results of a backend by comparing responses.

At this time, each backend receives around 60 million requests per day. I would also require an API Token (if you use them) with a larger capacity too.

Also, is there any intention of adding support for Rinkeby, Görli or Kovan? Just curious, as these can be configured per network.

Thanks! :)

[syahrul12345]

Hi @ricmoo. Hey, let's add in a Chainstack provider. They'll just need to specify their authentication details in this format https://username:password@rpc_end_point.com for a chainstack node. All of this can be obtained from our https://console.chainstack.com , when a user creates a new node

Do let me know how i can help!

[ricmoo]

It looks like you need to enter a credit card number, even for the purposes of the free developer tier.

Also, for the defaultProvider, it requires to be unauthenticated (or a general purpose account which I can hardcode into ethers and should be considered general public knowledge).

I generally avoid promoting products with pay-walls and systems that require sign-up cannot work with the default provider (the entire point of the default provider is absolutely-zero-touch; just works out of the box).

I think to integrate it at this point, the easiest thing to do is for you to provide an npm package which provides the Provider, which is likely just:

const { UrlJsonRpcProvider } = require("@ethersproject/providers"); 
const { inherits } = require("util");

export class ChainstackProvider extends UrlJsonRpcProvider {

    // You will likely use the apiKey parameter as the "username:password" string
    static getApiKey(apiKey: any): any {
        if (typeof(apiKey) !== "string" && apiKey.split(":").length !== 2) {
            logger.throwArgumentError("invalid username:password", "apiKey", apiKey);
        }
        return apiKey;
    }

    // Use this to compute the URL they should connect to
    static getUrl(network: Network, apiKey?: any): string {
        switch (network.name) {
            case "homestead":
                return "YOUR_URL_HERE";
                break;
            case "ropsten":
                return "YOUR_URL_HERE";
                break;
            case "rinkeby":
                return "YOUR_URL_HERE";
                break;
            case "goerli":
                return "YOUR_URL_HERE";
                break;
            case "kovan":
                return "YOUR_URL_HERE";
                break;
        }

        logger.throwArgumentError("unsupported network", "network", arguments[0]);
    }
}

[ricmoo]

Closing for now, but please feel free to re-open if something changes.

Thanks! :)